Even more strikingly, I have argued that the force of hypothetical imperatives is dependent on, and is at least in part constituted by, the force of some antecedent categorical imperative that is in part definitive of instrumental rationality.

The academician ponders the intangible, savors the paradoxical, and embraces the peculiar; he or she speaks in a special language of categorical imperatives and deontological view-points that must be taken into consideration before a statement about honesty is agreed to have any meaning.

To characterize one's moral and religious commitments as mere 'interests' is absurd, he claims, especially since these convictions more often than not reflect categorical imperatives or divine mandates, not chips that can be easily exchanged or bargained for.

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